The Infodemic: Insurance Companies Aren't Denying Payouts to Vaccine Recipients

South Korean Olympic table tennis player Jeon Ji-Hee receives the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at the National Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, April 29, 2021.

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Daily Debunk

Claim: Insurance companies deny life insurance payouts after people received COVID-19 vaccine.

Verdict: False

Read the full story at: USA Today

Social Media Disinfo

TikTok

Circulating on social media: Claim that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine contains a Bluetooth microchip.

Verdict: False

Read the full story at: PolitiFact

Factual Reads on Coronavirus

New report of illnesses at Wuhan lab raises questions about origins of COVID-19
Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the COVID-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory.
-- Wall Street Journal (via MarketWatch), May 23